Mod Excalibur to carry torpedos

I know this is probably a ship table mod but I want the Excalibur to be able to carry torpedos. What do I need to adjust to do this?

You need to create a modular ships table, iow is a text file called something-shp.tbm, whose contents will look a bit like this (I'll let you fill in the blanks for now, I need to absorb more tea to get my brain working), and put this in data/tables.

Next is adding torpedoes to the team loadouts of the missions you want.

I have put the following into a TBM file called excal-wep.tbm in data\tables:

I still can't select the torpedo. What did I do wrong here?

That'll teach me to post half asleep ...

OK, the table actually needs to be called excal-shp.tbm
Sorry for the inconvenience

X3N0-Life-Form wrote: That'll teach me to post half asleep ...

OK, the table actually needs to be called excal-shp.tbm
Sorry for the inconvenience

It's ok So if I want to mod a SHIP the file format has to be <name>-shp.tbm. To mod a Weapon use the other format

HeartOfTheTiger wrote: I have put the following into a TBM file called excal-wep.tbm in data\tables:

#Ship Classes

$Name: F-103A Excalibur
  +nocreate
$Allowed SBanks: ( "Pilum FF" "Spiculum IR" "Javelin HS" "Porcupine" "Dart Dumbfire" "Lance" )
$Allowed Dogfight SBanks: ( "Pilum FF" "Spiculum IR" "Javelin HS" "Porcupine" "Dart Dumbfire" "Lance" )

If I remove the allowed DogFight line that means that I cannot use the torpedo against fighters...correct? I also added the necessary #End statment

Actually, Dogfight weapons are only used for multiplayer dogfight games, so you don't need to concern yourself with that .



If you want more info about tables: www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Tables
Note that the WCS engine is an offshoot of Freespace Open 3.6.12, and as such doesn't support any feature from higher versions.

This makes the Excalibur a nice capship killer I figure if it carried a T-Bomb Lance torpedoes ought to be nothing!

HeartOfTheTiger wrote: This makes the Excalibur a nice capship killer I figure if it carried a T-Bomb Lance torpedoes ought to be nothing!

According to the novel carrying that T-Bomb actually meant leaving the entire rest of the payload behind and being very sluggish, that's why Blair wanted >two excaliburs guarding him while he was a sitting duck in that machine. Didn't play out like that in the game but it makes sense, so the excal was never really meant to carry anything of that magnitude.

KeldorKatarn wrote:

HeartOfTheTiger wrote: This makes the Excalibur a nice capship killer I figure if it carried a T-Bomb Lance torpedoes ought to be nothing!

According to the novel carrying that T-Bomb actually meant leaving the entire rest of the payload behind and being very sluggish, that's why Blair wanted >two excaliburs guarding him while he was a sitting duck in that machine. Didn't play out like that in the game but it makes sense, so the excal was never really meant to carry anything of that magnitude.

I forgot about that! Duh